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John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight


...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly (Wisconsin State Journal)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:33:37 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS — The book on Shane Connelly has a non-descript black cover and page after page of stellar, free-hand penmanship, but is yet unfinished. It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author. Connelly, the junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men's hockey team, was asked where one ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:16 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.February 21February 20Difference...

uSwitch.com expands product range

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:22:00 GMT
Insurancetimes.co.uk - ... range of insurance services with the launch of its new home insurance comparison channel. The channel is powered by insurance broker Outright and offers home insurance quotations ...

Some Quotes From Past Comments

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:15:00 GMT
FXStreet.com - A reader recently told us, "you know, in reading and listening to the financial news over the last few months, I had the feeling that I had read all of this before. Then I ...

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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Barrell Cheever


Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Xenophon


The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:58 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...

Crude Prices High Despite Reserve Growth

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:30:00 GMT
La Prensa Latina - However, against all odds, quotations barely dropped much from the 100-dollar barrel. Analysts of the consulting company Sucden alerted on the strong influence of a possible ...

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Elbert Hubbard


Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Cyrus H. Curtis


There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Charles McCabe


Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

George Peabody


Education a debt due from present to future generations.

Marilyn Monroe


I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:23 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:11 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday.

SCO n'est désormais plus listé au NASDAQ

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:20:00 GMT
PC INpact - ... il y a deux mois pour la possession de la propriété intellectuelle d’Unix, la firme vient de sortir du NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ...

Northwestern Dean Apologizes For Unattributed Quotes (NBC 5 Chicago)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:27:50 GMT
The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism issues an apology over unattributed quotes.

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Flannery O'Connor


Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Thomas Jefferson


My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Dave Thomas


Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl


What is to give light must endure burning.

John A. Field


I have been both rich and poor--while I have respect for both, I am unimpressed and unawed by both as well.

Mahatma Gandhi


The future depends on what we do in the present.

Oscar Wilde


Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Albert Camus


If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Woody Allen


If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Colin Raye


And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Herodotus


Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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ITEX CEO to Present at Roth Capital Conference

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:57:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning our expected performance (as described without limitation in the quotations from current management in this release) and comments within the ...

Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:29:00 GMT
ninemsn - Wesfarmers Ltd, which took over Australia's second biggest retailer Coles last year, has lifted first half earnings by 53.3 per cent and says its outlook for the expanded group remains positive. Net profit for the half year ended December 31 was a ...

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Walter Bagehot


One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Francis Bacon


Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Voltaire


Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Mignon McLaughlin


It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:13:00 GMT
ninemsn - SYDNEY, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Lihir Gold Ltd reported a full-year net loss of $24.1 million, after taking into account the cost of exiting its gold hedges. The loss in 2007 ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:06 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Wrap-up of entertainment quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:52:14 GMT
"I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up?" — Lindsay Lohan, on posing nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Marilyn Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died. The photos of Lohan were published in New York Magazine.

Crude Prices High Despite Reserve Growth

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:30:00 GMT
La Prensa Latina - However, against all odds, quotations barely dropped much from the 100-dollar barrel. Analysts of the consulting company Sucden alerted on the strong influence of a possible ...

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George Eliot


Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

Otto von Bismark


Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Alfred North Whitehead


The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Frederick Smith


Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton


A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Winston Churchill


Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Joyce


The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joan Rivers


A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Robert Francis Kennedy


In crises the most daring course is often safest.

George Will


Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

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Reporting: London

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:13:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:15:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Oil fell back on Thursday from all-time highs above $100 a barrel, pressured partly by a bigger-than-expected rise in crude oil stocks last week in top ...

Aldrich puts together powerful exhibition

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:13:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - Aldrich represents many cultures in her works and in the quotations she has chosen to accompany them. There is not one war here, but all war. The installation is devastatingly ...

Letters to the editor (Daily Northwestern)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:54:59 GMT
I commend The Daily's editorial Wednesday ("Dean caused his own Medill crisis," Feb. 20) for giving crucial context to "Quotegate" by pointing out that Medill Dean John Lavine's potentially made-up quotations themselves are only the latest in a string of actions that have alienated students, faculty and alumni since he took office.

Icers' coach uses quotes to motivate team (Penn State Collegian)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:13:25 GMT
Scott Balboni, top right, yells at his team during a game vs. Drexel earlier this season. Balboni posts motivational quotes in the Icers' locker room.

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